Intelligent Design and Its Critics

  • Intelligent Design Coming Clean

    By on November 18, 2000

     1. Cards on the Table  In the movie Dream Team starring Michael Keaton, Keaton plays a psychiatric patient who must feign sanity to save his psychiatrist from being murdered. In protesting his sanity, Keaton informs twoNewYorkCity policemen that he doesn’t wear women’s clothing, that he’s never danced aroundTimes Square naked, and that he doesn’t talk to Elvis. The two police

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  • Baylor University Responds to Misconceptions about the Polanyi Center Controversy

    By on October 27, 2000

    In light of remarks on the META list that indicate a significantmisunderstanding of the recent events surrounding the Polanyi Center atBaylor University, most particularly the removal of Dr. Dembski as itsdirector, I think it is important to clarify the significance of what hashappened. Dr. Dembski was not removed from the directorship for any academic failure.Baylor recognizes the value and legitimacy

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  • Formal letter of protest concerning Dembski’s removal

    By on October 24, 2000

    STATEMENT OF THE CRANACH INSTITUTEPROTESTING THE REMOVAL OF WILLIAM DEMBSKIAS DIRECTOR OF THE MICHAEL POLANYI CENTERAT BAYLOR UNIVERSITY The Cranach Institute wishes to express its dismay at the decision to removeWilliam Dembski as Director of the Michael Polanyi Center (Metanews,10/19/2000). Shortly before this announcement, we learned that thecommittee appointed to evaluate the status of the Center upheld theimportance and legitimacy

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  • Sedimentary Muddle: Review of Robert Pennock’s “The Tower of Babel”

    By on October 19, 2000

    It is odd how certain books can be turning points. I can think of three Rwhich have created turning points in my understanding of science and religion. The first was The Genesis Flood which convinced me in 1971 that Creationism was a serious issue. People in Britain laughed. The next was the Sea of Faith by Don Cupitt in 1983.Basically

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  • Review of William Dembski’s Intelligent Design

    By on May 31, 2000

    The advent of Michael Behe’s book Darwin‘s Black Box was probably one of the most provocative manuscripts to entice scholars in the philosophy of biology community and those in the science and religion dialogue to revisit intelligent design.  William Dembski provides a kind of sequel to Behe’s controversial but respectable work with his new book Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between

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